Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews

An "erudite work of China-centered literary criticism" (Kirkus Reviews) that scrolls through China's history from foreigners' perspectives. Have foreigners shaped China's history to a greater extent than has previously been acknowledged, reaching back possibly millennia? Was Confucius' most famous book, the Analects, inspired by entheogenic medicines imported from abroad, possession of which in the 1930s brought one before the firing squad in the name of Confucius? In these book review essa...